Broadway star who lost leg to coronavirus is awake, wife says

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (WJW) – Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero is no longer in a medically-induced coma, his wife said on Instagram Tuesday.

“He is awake!” Amanda Kloots said while holding the couple’s young son on her Instagram stories.

“Guys, we might have to change our hashtag to #CodeRocky because Nick, Dada, is awake!,” Kloots said with a big smile. “Yay! Dada is awake! He is awake guys!”

“I asked the doctor today, ‘Can we say he is awake?’ He is awake. It’s just that Nick is so weak right now that even opening or closing his eyes right now takes all of his energy. But he is awake,” she said.

Kloots shared a series of post from dozens of people celebrating the news.

“He went to the ER on March 30th and intubated on a ventilator on April 1. Since then has he has suffered an infection that caused his heart to stop, he needed resuscitation, he had two mini strokes, went on ECMO, went on dialysis, needed surgery to removal an ECMO cannula that was restricting blood flow to his leg, a faciatomy to relieve pressure on the leg, an amputation of his right leg, an MRI to further investigate brain damage, several bronchial sweeps to clear out his lungs, a septis infection causing septic shock, a fungus in his lungs, holes in his lungs, a tracheostomy, blood clots, low blood count and platelet levels, and a temporary pacemaker to assist his heart,” she wrote. “This disease does not only effect old people. This is real.”

Cordero met Koots in 2014 when they were in the cast of Broadway’s Woody Allen 1994 film adaptation of “Bullets Over Broadway,” Playbill.com reported. Cordero received a Tony nomination for best featured actor for his role.

The lanky Cordero originated the menacing role of husband Earl opposite his estranged wife, played by Jessie Mueller, in “Waitress” on Broadway, as well as the role of Sonny in Chazz Palminteri’s “A Bronx Tale.”